From D4s to Daily Habits: Embedding Lifestyle Medicine in Occupational Health

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Session details:

Dr Sue Law is a GP with over 20 years’ experience working predominantly in deprived inner-city communities and more than a decade’s experience in occupational health supporting professional drivers. She is Founder of Improve My Health, delivering evidence-based lifestyle medicine programmes to businesses and communities. She teaches lifestyle medicine to GP trainees and medical students while serving as an assessor for the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Core Accreditation. Her approach is known for being clear, compassionate and engaging, combining clinical rigour with warmth, humour and real-world relevance.

This webinar introduces the principles of lifestyle medicine and explores how they can be applied practically within occupational health to improve workforce wellbeing, reduce sickness absence and support retention. Dr Sue Law will share real-world insights from her Driving Better Health interventions, including brief lifestyle medicine consultations delivered alongside D4 medicals and targeted group clinics for higher-risk employees. The session will demonstrate how occupational health teams can move from reactive management to proactive prevention, embedding evidence-based behaviour change approaches into everyday practice to create healthier, safer and more productive workplaces.

The session will cover
•    What is lifestyle medicine
•    Why and how lifestyle medicine is relevant in occupational health 
•    Top Lifestyle Medicine Tips
•    Driving Better Health - a practical model for workforce health improvement in professional drivers
 
Chair: Lucy Smith

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